Study: Companies place greater emphasis on labor, human rights issues
Labor and human rights was the highest-scoring theme out the four assessment areas.
The third edition of the Global CSR Risk and Performance Index offers key insights on supply chain sustainability performance of more than 30,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis, Paris, in 2016-2018.
The report provides comprehensive snapshots of nine industry divisions as well as performance comparisons by company size and region. These are based on over 40,000 scorecards that cover four themes—environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement covering 21 sustainability criteria. Scores are based on a scale of 0-100. About 5% of organizations score above 64, which represents “advanced” to “outstanding” performance, while companies with scores above 45 are considered “engaged.” Scores of 25-44 represent medium risk, and scores below 25 are considered high risk.